Re: Watazumi's Hocchiku Specs

The longest one I can recall being listed on his album liner notes was 3.4 and it sounded like he was really struggling with it on that song. The ones in the pics you're talking about are so fat they wouldn't play in tune in the second octave.

Maybe we need a new term for that kind of flute "fat shakuhachi that only plays midway thru the second octave" any of our linguists want to tackle that? We'll add it to the glossary.

Re: Watazumi's Hocchiku Specs

ABRAXAS wrote:

The Taimu you are using on the youtube video of Kyorei is Watazumily-impressive too.

Very similar, only good for one octave. 3.0 (D). That was made from some bamboo Ken and I found in a hardware store in Japan Town. It has now cracked into numerous pieces so that video is the only souvenir.

Re: Watazumi's Hocchiku Specs

I have one "tree trunk" shakuhachi that was a flutemaker's experiment that he gave to me - it is very interesting to play - it is mysteriously in tune with itself, but not "shakuhachi" tuning. Melodies can be had but on it's own terms and it is a challenge to get volume out of it. No 2nd octave (at least not that I can achieve). It is interesting and somehow educational to tinker with, not sure how but somehow. It has a tozan utaguchi inlay big enough to skip across water. I think its almost big enough to hide another shakuhachi in the bore! I'll post pics whenever I get another digicam.

Re: Watazumi's Hocchiku Specs

Tairaku wrote:

The longest one I can recall being listed on his album liner notes was 3.4 and it sounded like he was really struggling with it on that song. The ones in the pics you're talking about are so fat they wouldn't play in tune in the second octave.

Maybe we need a new term for that kind of flute "fat shakuhachi that only plays midway thru the second octave" any of our linguists want to tackle that? We'll add it to the glossary.

Re: Watazumi's Hocchiku Specs

May I join this club of weirdos?I think this might be more sane than some of the other clubs around.... My Buddhabelly bamboo shakuhachi only plays (or played until it cracked) right in the lower register too.... so I want to join.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves throughlisten to this music Hafiz